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Here are 12 safety tips to insure your pets enjoy a safe and healthy holiday season: 12) Candles Burn: Curiosity can kill a cat. If a candle is knocked over, a house fire may start. A pet can get singed brushing against a candle. Scented candles can be dangerous for birds. 11) Meet the Relatives: Some pets are social butterflies, others not so much. A constant flow of relatives can be traumatic for some pets (even more than it is for you). Don't force the pets to interact with Aunt Sally and Uncle Buddy if they don't want to. 10)

Here are the best-sellers for August, according to book supplier 800-CEO-READ, based on purchases by corporate customers nationwide. 1. "The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work," by Cathleen Benko and Molly Anderson, Harvard Business Review Press, 224 pages, $29.95. "The Corporate Lattice" teaches organizations how to adapt to the changing world and reveals why lattice organizations are more productive — and profitable. 2. "The Buying Brain: Secrets for Selling to the Subconscious Mind," by A. K. Pradeep, John Wiley & Sons, 252 pages, $27.95.

William C. Morris, beloved husband of Mary, nee Mountford and the late Lattice Morris, nee Bizzle; loving father of Anna Laura (the late Lewis Bell), Arlette (the late Marvin Joe) Childress and Tera (Sheri) Morris; dear stepfather of Janet (Avery) Spont, Paul (Mariroth) Pleak and the late Robert Pleak; cherished grandfather of 13; great-grandfather of nine; and great-great-grandfather of two; kind brother of James and Charles Morris, Donia Fincher and Jewel Epperstien; fond uncle of many nieces and nephews.

The city is set to accept ownership of the 200-foot-tall transmission tower on the grounds of its public works center at Cass Avenue and 55th Street. The metal, lattice tower belongs to the University of Chicago, which built it in 1992 on land leased from Darien. The tower hosts a microwave link between the university's Chicago campus and its billing center in Darien. But a planned switch from the microwave link to a fiber optic connection means the university no longer needs the tower.

Following a Plan Commission recommendation, trustees have voted to allow the installation of a 90-foot cellular tower at 1 N. Grace St., near St. Charles Road. Cellular One had sought a conditional use to build a 100-foot lattice tower in north Lombard, but agreed to install a shorter monopole. The board approved the revamped proposal 4-2 last week. Cellular One officials said the structure will be used to provide service in what they said amounts to a cellular dead zone in central Lombard.

Tollway officials may modify plans for a 150-foot cell tower they want to build in a residential area near 55th Street and Interstate Highway 294, Village President Jack Lynch said Tuesday. In August, the tollway proposed building a lattice tower on its land near Birch Lane in the Ridgewood subdivision. But Lynch said tollway officials had offered to comply with a new village ordinance and build a monopole instead. Tollway officials, he said, might seek a variance to allow a tower of more than 100 feet, the maximum height allowed by the ordinance.

Lombard's Village Board voted Thursday night to send a proposal for a cellular antenna back to the Plan Commission for reconsideration after the company requesting permission to erect the tower agreed to revise the plan. Cellular One Chicago had sought a conditional-use permit to build a 100-foot lattice-type tower in north Lombard near Grace Street and St. Charles Road, but it instead has agreed to a thinner, 90-foot structure. The company also has promised to landscape the area to the south and east of the tower's base.

The Lombard Village Board voted Thursday night to approve a proposal to forbid the installation of cell towers in residential neighborhoods and limit their height and design in other areas of Lombard. The regulations will allow only monopole antennas of up to 100 feet in height to be placed in the village. The village staff said the guidelines also called for the towers to be installed at least 500 feet apart to avoid clustering and mandates the removal of any tower after 180 consecutive inactive days, according to village documents.